‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ Review: Tom Cruise & Co. Take Excitement & Suspense To New Level
deadline.comThey should call it Mission: Exceptional. Given that this is a series that began on television 57 years ago and over the past 27 years has delivered seven big feature films, no one would be terribly surprised if it were to begin flagging a bit.
But Tom Cruise & Co. will have none of that; to the contrary, this new entry, officially called Dead Reckoning Part One, ramps up the excitement and sheer flat-out impressiveness to a new level, with the absolute final piece of the puzzle already shot and due to open in a year’s time.
Few films have come into existence that display so much confidence and conviction in what they’re doing and can follow through with their ideas onscreen virtually without regard to budgetary constraints.
To put things in perspective, the normal budget for a one-hour episode of M:I on television in the late 1960s was $225,000, which was on the high side for the time.
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